With two non-league sides featuring in the last sixteen of the FA Cup for the first time since 1920, the narrative was set for this year as the year when the magic of the FA Cup was restored. As impressive as Lincoln City’s win away at Burnley was, and the way that Danny Cowley’s men […]

A Tranmere Rovers fan, a Crystal Palace fan, a Manchester City fan and an Arsenal fan are on a train to Eastleigh; this isn’t the introduction to a new modern variation of the old jokes based on national stereotype, but a travelling party to a match in the fifth tier of the English football pyramid. […]

Having pretty much declared the Premier League title race over on these very pages last week, it came as a bit of a surprise that Chelsea were held to a draw at Turf Moor, not in any derogatory sense towards Burnley, Sean Dyche’s men boast a highly impressive home record, but simply because, for the […]

The perceived wisdom ahead of their visit to Stamford Bridge last Saturday lunchtime was that Arsenal needed to win to keep alive any feint hope of staying in the title race. The fact that they didn’t and that they went down with barely a whimper was far from surprising; the only real shock was that […]

The main hope for the chasing pack in this midweek’s round of league fixtures was that Liverpool would shake off their recent woeful form and do everyone a favour and take points off Chelsea; in the end it was only Manchester City that were able to capitalise and Antonio Conte’s men actually increased their lead […]